Bi Polar People

   Named not for air quality, it's actually quite good here  I wrote a poem sixty years ago while in the Air Force The picture and the name are appealing  The poem is below Drone shot blogger Yellow hues of crisp green lightening  crackling past the moon Life is not a storm nor wonder but an instant doomed

    The first 100 days of his second term have been among the most destabilizing in American history, a blitz of power grabs, strategic shifts, and direct attacks that have left opponents, global counterparts, and even many supporters stunned. Trump has launched a battery of orders and memoranda that have hobbled entire government agencies and departments. He has threatened to take Greenland by force, seize control of the Panama Canal, and annex Canada. Weaponizing his control of the Justice Department, he has ordered investigations of political enemies. He has  gutted much of the civil service , removing more than a hundred thousand federal workers. He has gone to war with institutions across American life:  universities , media outlets, law firms, museums. He  pardoned or gave a commutation to every single defendant  charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attacks, including those convicted of violent acts and seditious conspiracy. Seeking to remake the glo...

  "Millions of people around the world are mourning the death of Pope Francis According to the Vatican, the head of the Roman Catholic Church died on Easter Monday at the age of 88" German Chancellor-designate Friedrich Merz : "The death of Pope Francis fills me with great sadness. Francis will be remembered for his tireless commitment to the weakest members of society, for justice and reconciliation." www.bluewin.ch/

  King for a day         Nay I say Just point the way What will happen may  Neither do they know for sure  if there is a cure and can endure  the direction which will take them  to the same place    

  Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Today’s rightwing leaders and their rich allies are not just taking advantage of catastrophes, shock-doctrine and disaster-capitalism style, but simultaneously provoking and planning for them. But you don’t need to be a biblical literalist, or even religious, to be an end times fascist. Today, plenty of powerful secular people have embraced a vision of the future that follows a nearly identical script, one in which the world as we know it collapses under its weight and a chosen few survive and thrive in various kinds of arks, bunkers and gated “freedom cities”. In a 2019 paper titled Left Behind: Future Fetishists, Prepping and the Abandonment of Earth, the communication scholars Sarah T Roberts and Mél Hogan described the longing for a secular Rapture: “In the accelerationist imaginary, the future is not about harm reduction, limits or restoration; rather it is a politics driving toward an endgame.” As fascism always does...

Berlin Perils  

  Take a look at  Ningbo China  the place where this two  dollar hummingbird feeder was made.    

 Thirty five percent of us have not found jobs Stuck multidimensionally Every layer has some new hurdle to overcome You're saving the country money because it's being taken away from us Is this any way to lower corporate tax or did you have something else in mind People feel cheated by someone who promised so much then took it away Everything you do hurts some, the many can't change anything Are they trying